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<h1 class="title">Skeletal Animations</h1>

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<p>The skeleton modules provides a way to have 2d skeletal animations in
your cocos applications. The process of may be a bit complicated to setup, but
using them afterwards is easy, and there are some tools to simplify the process.</p>
<p>To do skeletal animations in cocos you will have to:</p>
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<li>Create a skeleton</li>
<li>Create one or many skins</li>
<li>Create all the animations you want</li>
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<p>Then, to use them you will have to:</p>
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<li>Load the skeleton</li>
<li>Load the skin</li>
<li>Add a Skin cocos node to your scene</li>
<li>Load the animations</li>
<li>Use the Anim action on the skin node to play animations.</li>
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